Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Students
for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a mass student organization that at
its height had chapters on hundreds of college campuses and an estimated
100,000 members. It grew out of the youth branch of the League for
Industrial Democracy, rejecting that organization’s anti-Communism and
seeking to become part of a new student militancy sparked in large part
by the civil rights movement. Its June 1960 founding document, the Port
Huron Statement, advocated radical social involvement under the heading
of “participatory democracy.”
From 1960 until its organizational demise in 1969, SDS played a major role in the social movements of the time, often spearheading campus protests and rebellions, and in particular strengthening the struggle against the war in Vietnam and all of Indochina, as well as engaging in community organizing in poor and working class communities, and support for the civil rights, Black liberation, and other Third World movements in the US. The collection represents a sampling of the periodicals, such as New Left Notes, and other position papers of SDS.
From 1960 until its organizational demise in 1969, SDS played a major role in the social movements of the time, often spearheading campus protests and rebellions, and in particular strengthening the struggle against the war in Vietnam and all of Indochina, as well as engaging in community organizing in poor and working class communities, and support for the civil rights, Black liberation, and other Third World movements in the US. The collection represents a sampling of the periodicals, such as New Left Notes, and other position papers of SDS.
Documents
![The Peace Movement: New Possibilities?](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
A piece on the viability of the peace movement in early 1960s America.
![Student Social Action](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 3/1962Volume Number: MarchFormat: TranscriptCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
From a speech delivered at Challenge- University of Michigan, March, 1962.
![SDS Bulletin](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1964Volume Number: Vol. 2-6 MarchFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents include: The National Council: A reply to the President's Report; Swarthmore Political Action: A History; Read I.F. Stone's Weekly Muckraking Journalism at its Best. Also, Chapter reports; Kentuckians March on Capitol; Report on San Francisco and Berkeley; SDS Project Reports; Civil Liberties, Academic Freedom and University Reform; Civil Rights New Briefs and Up to Date Literature List.
![SDS Bulletin](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1964Volume Number: Vol. 2-7 AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents include: Enthusiasm for Organizing Marks Hazard Conference; The Palace Siege: Employment and Housing in the San Fran. Bay Area; Get the US Out of Vietnam. Also, President's report; Chapter Reports; ERAP Report; The Nashville Movement; NSA Civil Rights and Reform Caucuses; Cracks in the Washington Monolith; March on Frankfort-Inside Story; Sigal's Going Away Book Review; Up to Date Literature List.
![SDS Literature List](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: FlyerCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
SDS Literature List with ordering information. Materials include information about SDS, papers by SDS members, other materials on economics, and materials on other subjects.
![SDS Constitution](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: ManifestoCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Originally adopted in Convention, June 1962. Amended in Convention, June 1963.
![Conference on Community Organizing](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: FlyerCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Panels, workshops, speakers, etc. Held in Ann Arbor April 10-12.
![Announcing a conference on Poverty and the Economy](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: FlyerCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Flyer for a conference talking place May 1-3 in Champaign, Illinois.
![Mississippi Summer Project](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PamphletCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Information on the Mississippi Summer Project including Voter Registration, Freedom Schools, Community Centers, Research Project, White Community Project, Law Student Project and contact information.
![SDS Pamphlet](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PamphletCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Information on SDS, its goals and its programs.